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Teachers Value Their Grandchildren, Poetry, and Sisters.
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Hansen, Jane – Voices from the Middle, 1996
Describes a master's level course for teachers called "Foundations of Reading Instruction," which was built around students choosing their own goal of what they wanted to learn about the teaching of reading. Discusses the structure of their in-class workshops, goals, midway self-evaluations, the last weeks of their work on their goals, final…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Portfolios (Background Materials), Reading Instruction
"Sometimes I Wish I'd Never Did It": Removing Communication Road Blocks from At-Risk Students.
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Coty, Sue – Voices from the Middle, 1994
Offers an account of the changes one teacher observed in her reading/writing workshop in a middle school classroom when she and her students took the time to focus on ways of talking to one another, building their speaking and listening skills. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Grade 7, High Risk Students
Thank You, Mrs. Bean: Seeking Balance for Students Who Struggle as Readers.
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Vacca, Richard T. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Discusses what it means to struggle as a reader, lacking competence with reading strategies and lacking confidence in oneself to make meaning with texts. Argues that balance can be found in adolescent reading programs by seeking equilibrium between the visible and invisible aspects of instruction in the development and use of reading strategies.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Instructional Effectiveness, Middle Schools, Reading Difficulties
"Amidst Familial Gatherings": Reading Apprenticeship in a Middle School Classroom.
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Jordan, Marean; Jensen, Rita; Greenleaf, Cynthia – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Describes Reading Apprenticeship, an approach to adolescent reading improvement in which teachers apprentice students into the strategies skilled readers use. Demonstrates the program at work in one seventh and eighth grade classroom. Discusses four key dimensions of classroom life: social (building community); personal (connecting to reading);…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Grade 7, Grade 8
Getting Kids into the Reading Game: You Gotta Know the Rules.
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Wilhelm, Jeff – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Argues that schools and teachers underestimate the demands that particular texts place on readers, especially as students reach middle school. Describes how the author uses think-alouds as one particular technique to actively give contextualized strategic knowledge over to students. Shows how this helps readers overcome their struggles to develop…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Educational Practices, Educational Principles
Simply Irresistible: Letting Our Reading Inform Theirs.
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Mollineaux, Bill, Ed. – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Offers numerous suggestions for dealing with and meeting needs of reluctant readers. Discusses the issue of parental concern over children reading a wide selection of books for young adults. Includes a letter to parents both informing them of the wide reading expected of their children and requesting their permission to sign out books from the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Books, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Reading Attitudes
Hope Springs Eternal.
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Ford, Kim – Voices from the Middle, 2002
Presents annotations of 12 novels for young adults. Encourages teachers to give their students books to read because it often makes a difference. (SG)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection